Jean-Auguste-Dominique INGRES (Montauban 1780 - Paris 1867) Bust-length portrait of a woman wearing a madras hat Black pencil. Signed on the left. (Some foxing, slightly oiled). 19 x 12 cm Provenance: Possibly family of Baron Xavier de Dalmassy; his daughter Joséphine Marie Adélaïde married Alfred Chavane, lawyer, in 1845; then Alfred Chavane (1845-1926); then Jules Chavane (1872-1960); given by his uncle Jules Chavane to Madame Marie Alice Ollier-Chavane (1927-2022). Xavier, baron de Dalmassy (1799-1896), bought Château de Richecourt in 1808. Of Piedmontese origin, he was the son of Jean-Baptiste, baron de Dalmassy. He spent most of his life as a magistrate (including a term as judge of the Versailles court), and was elected general councillor for the Jussey canton in 1853. He built a modern residence next to the medieval château de Richecourt. His daughter Joséphine Marie Adélaïde married Édouard François Xavier Alfred Chavane (then a lawyer) in January 1845. Their heirs still own Château de Richecourt. It was in the attic of this château that this unpublished drawing was found and given to Marie Ollier-Chavane by her uncle Jules Chavane. In 1826, Xavier de Dalmassy had married Marie-Louise Walckenaer (1804-1855), daughter of Baron Walckenaer and his wife Marie-Jeanne-Antoinette-Joséphine, née Marcotte. It is not impossible that the portrait presented here may correspond to this young woman. Links with Marcotte family descendants were further strengthened by the marriage of Claude Chavane de Dalmassy (1902-1970) to Marie-Louise Pougin de la Maisonneuve (1902-1999). The model's attire is similar to that worn by the sister of Ingres' first wife, Madame René Borel, née Marie-Joseph Chapelle, in her portrait drawn by Ingres in 1818 (see: H. Naef, Die Bildzeichnungen von J.A.D. Ingres, Bern, 1977, Bartelli Verlag, vol. IV, no. 220, pp. 412-413, reproduced). Both models are wearing madras, a fashionable headdress at the time. Typical of the period, too, are the little English braids that escape from the fabric and tickle the forehead of the model shown here. Her facial features are also reminiscent of Madame Pancoucke, née Cécile Bochet, whose portrait Ingres painted in 1811 (see : H. Toussaint, Les Portraits d'Ingres. Peintures des musées nationaux, Paris, RMN, 1985, n° VII, p. 46-47, reproduced). A drawing by Ingres depicting her is also in the Musée Bonnat-Helleu in Bayonne (opus cited above, no. VII 1, p. 48, reproduced). Bochet and Pancoucke were working with Marcotte in the French administration in Rome at this time.